Lies ‘R Us “Lies ‘R Us” isn’t a big box store or a board game for death row inmates or even a brand of cosmetics for women over fifty. “Lies ‘R Us” is an invisible country. It’s been around for decades, but in an amorphous and...
Read MoreCasino Voting Odds Makers listen up. How do Las Vegas casinos guard against “Odds Shifters,” “Advantage Gamblers,“ and “Cheaters?” First, they use the law to discourage any form of stealing, i.e., cheating. Laws affecting...
Read MoreGroundhog Year My wife and I went into isolation a year ago after news of a deadly pandemic spreading across the country. We’ve been extraordinarily vigilant in our adherence to mitigation protocols—wearing masks, social...
Read MoreDay of Reckoning There’s a limit to how much one’s conscience can bear before it transforms from an unpleasant rumbling in your gut to a tsunami of outrage. I’m a white male with roots in the antebellum south. I’m also a child...
Read MoreTelling The Truth Isn’t Enough. I get it. The “whole truth” renders the truth incomplete. It’s like a mosaic that can only be understood in its totality. Individual tiles are true parts of the whole picture, but they reveal...
Read More“What Have You Got To Lose? We’ve heard that challenge before; in fact, it was made popular by a loser. A bigly loser. This time it’s not an insult aimed at the poor and dispossessed; nope, it’s a statement of support to the...
Read More“Majority White’s” Last Stand The insurrection continues. The dominoes that lead to the failure of our democratic experiment are beginning to fall. Insurrection will continue until it’s end game—perpetuating white supremacy—is...
Read MoreA Legacy That Will Live In Infamy Infamy is a place where the unforgiven go to bury their shame. It’s landscape is colorless…a montage of blackness that inspires nothing. Infamy’s skyline is marked by towering...
Read MoreAvoidable Holocaust 540,000 Vs 11,000 deaths. It’s the dramatic difference between the results of an objective, thoughtful COVID-19 response and a subjective, idiotic one. If this is an unintended consequence, my question would...
Read MoreVaccine Wish List If you were given the assignment: Make a list of all the things in your life a vaccine could remedy, what would you include that would brighten your life? To get you started, I’ll share part of my list. I’ll...
Read MoreWoody Allen. Not Funny. My favorite Woody Allen film hasn’t been written. After watching the 4-episode documentary, “Allen v Farrow”, I’m left feeling like I did on June 20, 2001, when I learned that a Houston housewife had...
Read MoreThe Office Don’t be fooled. The president of the United States is not some kind of God-anointed messiah who’s been placed in our path to show us the way. Yes, POTUS does have extraordinary power, but it’s bestowed power, not...
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